Looking for input on safe browsing strategies

By now, you’d be hard-pressed to find even a novice PC user who doesn’t know that bad things come through browsers and Internet links in e-mail.

It’s amazing that in a battle as old as the Internet, we still don’t have clearly defined strategies for protecting our PCs from all forms of malicious attacks.

In his post, “Should I use IE 8 with Firefox Portable?,” Lounge member Roderunner asked whether he should stick to Firefox or enable IE 8 for safer browsing. That generated a long and interesting discussion about using multiple browsers, sandboxing, and product update analysis software. More»

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The following links are this week’s most-interesting Lounge threads, including several new questions that you may be able to provide responses to:

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The Lounge Life column is a digest of the best of the WS Lounge discussion board. Tracey Capen is technical editor of WindowsSecrets.com.

About Tracey Capen

Editor in chief Tracey Capen was the executive editor of reviews at PC World magazine for 10 years, from 1995 to 2005. He was InfoWorld's managing editor of reviews from 1993 to 1995 and worked in the magazine's test center and as networking editor from 1989 to 1992. Between his stints at InfoWorld, he was senior labs editor at Corporate Computing magazine.

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